LYCOS RETRIEVER 
Interstate Commerce Commission: Railroads
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In at least two landmark cases... the Commission sided with the railroads rather than with the African-American passengers who had filed complaints. In both Mitchell v. United States (1941) and Henderson v. United States (1950), the U.S. Supreme Court took a more expansive view of the Act than the Commission.[3] In 1962, the ICC banned racial discrimination in buses and bus stations, but it did not do so until several months after a binding pro-integration Supreme Court decision (Boynton v. Virginia) and the Freedom Rides (in which activists engaged in civil disobedience to desegregate interstate buses).
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In an 1886 decision, Wabash, St. Louis and Pacific Railroad v. Illinois, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that the states could not regulate interstate railroads, effectively shifting the burden of regulation to the federal government. Farmers and merchants supported the establishment of the ICC. So too did managers of many railroad corporations, who hoped federal regulation would offer more consistency and stability than either existing state rules or totally unrestrained competition.
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